SON LE

San Francisco / Berlin

über den künstler

Son Le ist 1985 in Vietnam geboren und mit 9 Jahren in die USA emigriert. Seit gut einem Jahr lebt und arbeitet Son in Berlin. Seine Jugend verbrachte er in Kalifornien und nach seinem Studium “Economics, Fine Arts & Photography” an der University of Santa Cruz begann er die Welt zu bereisen. Der größte Teil seiner Arbeiten entstand in Nordamerika, Vietnam und Europa. Zu sehen sind Abstraktionen der Szenerien, die mit Licht verdeutlicht werden.

Son Le über sich:
My most recent work captures the journey that I've been on the past year, traveling, and finding things about the places and bits of myself in various cities around the world that I've been through.

On multiples:
It's not necessarily that pictures lie when composed singularly, it's that things mean differently when you edit other things out, made nicer- too nice, maybe. By composing segments together, minor truths are shown; that which are nice in the simple simplicity of things that exist without complications, 
 .. but as well, you get the relation to the fragile totality of incidental life that we live in- so are the happenings that gives everything we do: and all that we know to exists, some sort of meaning: essentially some sort of soulfulness. Consolatory or not.

On mood:

There are moments when and where the world
from that standpoint
feels utterly momentous

Things seem to slow down, 

oscillating in their own weighted momentum

In this sphere,
things are more real
and surreal

im dressing them in light so you can see them.

On work:
My work is a reduction of perception.
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